The New York Herald Newspaper, March 9, 1862, Page 4

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He took possession of Fort Johnson, one of the strongest defences of the town, at sunrise yesterday, and entered Leesburg with fixed bayonets and flags flying, driving the febe! General Hill with all his command from the town and the surrounding forts, in full re- treat towaida Middleburg. The Stars and Stripes mow wave over Leesburg, and our troops occupy the bank, the Post Office and all the public build’ ings. Leesburg is the capitol of Loudon county, Va., and lies under the Kittoctan Mountains, with- in three miles of the south bank of the Potomac, forty miles southeast of Washington, and 150 miles forth of Richmond. It has teen an important Point for the rebels since the opening of the cam- paign, standing, as it did, between our position at Point of Rocks and Winhester. The towns of Wheatland and Waterford are small post villages lying north of Leesburg, both in Loudon county. The latter is situated on Kittoctan creek, six miles north of Leesburg, and contains about five hundred inhabitants. Our latest news from this quarter came to us at a late hour last night, from Sandy Hook, and is to the effect that at that hour heavy firing was heard in the direction of Winchester. The grand Army of the Potomac was divided by General McClelian yesterday into five corps @armee, respectively commanded by Generals Heintzelman, McDowell, Sumner, Keyes and Banks. Our news from Missouri to-day is interesting. New Madrid, where the rebels have made a stand, with a force of nearly 10,000 men, with four gun- boats at anchor off the town, is completely in- vested by the army of General Pope. Some skir- mishes had taken place there, in which several of our troops were killed by shells thrown from the febel gunboats. New Madrid is a flourishing little town on the Mississippi river, 230 miles southeas; Of Jefferson City. It is the capital of Madrid county, has a population of 2,000 inhabitants, @nd enjoys a large business in shipping corn, lum- ber, and cattle for the Southern market. The Officets of General Pope's command are confiden, that a3 soon as the gunboats are silenced the town will fall easily into our hands. The town of Savannah, on the Tennessee river, is being fortified by the rebels, in the hope of making @ successful resistance to the “advance of our gun- boata up the river. Savannah stands on the east bank of the Tennessee river, about 130 miles south of Nashville. It is a post village, and capital of Hardin county. Before the rebellion it boasted of anactive business, and had for some years past been improving considerably. It was prominent Place for shipping slaves and cotton, and hasa Population of between 800 and 1,000. Our special correspondence from Columbus, Ky., ts full of incidents connected with the evacuation of the rebel Gibraltar, which will be found highly interesting. We publish to-day an excellent map of Nashville end its vicinity, together with sketches of that city and the town of Edgefield, on the opposite bank of the Cumberland river, where General Buell has his headquarters. Our correspondence from Nashville will be found full of interesting details of the oocu- pation of that place by our troops, and the evacu- ftion of Bowling Green by the rebels, the reason for which, under the circumstances, remains a Mystery, but it appears that it was abandoned by the common consent of all the rebel generals in council, Genoral Beauregard being foremost in ad- Vocating the measure. Our extracts from the Southern papers are varied Qnd important. Great discoutent with the Cabinet Toff. Davis is manifested in Many quarters, and tope of despondency prevails throughout the ith, despite the efforts of journalists to keep up Sppearance of pluck and hopefulness. In'the ital of rebeldom, Richmond, it is evident, f from Gap. capbinual arrests, the enactment of aartiai | taw, and the frequent displays of Union sentiment, that a most uneasy feeling exists. In addition to John Minor Botts and the other gentlemen lately incarcerated on charge of treason to the Davis government, a number of Germans belonging to | the Turnverien have been arrested in consequence of a Union flag being displayed in the meeting hall. The greatest excitement is said to prevail at Norfolk in expectation of an attack and the de- struction of the city by General Burnside, who was reported to be moving from Winton, N.C., on Suffolk, Va., where a large force of rebels are concentrating to resist him. A despatch received at Fortress Monroe from Atlanta, Ga., says that our troops have occupied Marfreesboro’, and that General Albert Sydney Johnston has fallen back to Decatur, Ala. By way of Denver City we are informed that a desperate battle has taken place on the 21st ult. at Valverde, New Mexico, on the left bank of the Rio Grande, ten miles south ef Fort Craig, where Colonel Canby commands the Union army. No details of the fight are given; but the loss is said to be very heavy on both sides, and that both par- ties claim the victory. The news, so far, is rather vague. It is reported that a whole regiment of New Mexican soldiers fled ignominiously, and that Captain McRae, of the artillery, and his entire command, were killed at their posts and their guns captured by the rebels. We give to-day very full accounts of the eommanding officers on both sides—Colonel Canby, Captain McRae, and the rebel commander, Sibley. « THE TAX BILL: We lay before our readers this morning the most important sections of the Tax bill reported to Congress last week. The discussion of this mea- sure has been made the special order for next Tuesday, when it will undoubtedly receive from members of Congress the attention which its im- portance demands. Some amendments will un- doubtedly be made before the bill shall become a law; some changes suggest themselves to us. It will be seen, by reference to the act, as pub- lished elsewhere in our columns, that the Com- mittee of Ways and Means did not neglect to impose a duty on goods manufactured of cotton, as was at first supposed, but that they inserted a clause requiring goods of this description, in com- mon with those manufactured of wool, silk, worsted, flax, hemp, jute, &c., to paya duty of three per centum ad valorem. It would seem, however, that this rate is too small, when we con- sider that our manufacturers have been aided so greatly by the passage of a tariff act levying very high duties on cot! goods of foreign manufac- ture. The rates imposed by that act on this class of goods are so high that they have had the effect to greatly diminish the importation thereof. But cotton goods will always be consumed in large quan- tities, and if the price of those manufactured abroad be too high those of our own manufacture will be consumed in larger quantities than heretofore. Such has already been the effect of the Tariff act referred to. Our people could afford to pay twice the rate required by the act, as it stands at present, without suffering by it. The price of cottons of American manufacture would not then approach that of those of English make; the prospetity of our manufacturing towns would not-be affected by the tax, and the government would realize a largely increased sum. Tobacco, in an unmanufactured state and in the form of smoking tobacco, will be required to pay a duty of three cents per pound, if the bill passes in its present form. An ad valorem duty on this article would be much fairer. Tobacco varies greatly in value, and a tax of three cents per pound on an inferior quality would be much more oppressive on those who use it than would be a tax of the same sum on & su- perior quality on those who use such. The tax on incomes is made payable on the 30th of June, 1862, and of each succeeding year until 1865, when it is to cease. The rate is to be three percentum on the excess of income, or salary, over $600 per annum, and not three per centum on the total income, or salary, as was at first reported by telegraph. Thus a men receiving a salary of $1,000 will be required to pay a tax of but twelve dollars, instead of thirty. A few only would com- plain if the last named sum were required of them. A scheme similar to that offered in Congress a few days since would meet with no opposition, and would be more just than that proposed in the Tax bill. We refer to that by which a rate of taxation, gradually increasing with the amount of salary received, is proposed. MISCELLANEOUS NEWS. In the Senate of our State Legislature yestesday the bills to amend the divorce laws and to punish the fraudulent use of trade marks and stamps were passed. Bills were introduced to improve the Central Park and to close avenue B between 116th and 120th streets. Notice was given of a motion to create a ‘gridiron committee.’’ The Governor sent in resolutions of the Maine Legisiature in favor of a tariff on wool. The Assembly went throngh a more extended routine of business than the Senate, a number of new bills being introduced and several reported upon from the standing committees. Among those which made their first appearance in the House were bills to allow alien residents to inherit as well as devise real estate, for a vote on the prohibitory amendment to the constitution, for more railroads in this city, and for a variety of other objects of local or minor interest. Petitions were presented against the proposed New York and Brooklyn Carrying Company and against the Spring Street Railroad. The resolutions approving the recommendations of the President's late speciay Message were called up and referred to the Fede- rai Relations Committee. Considerable other busi- ness of less general importance was transacted. The steamship Khersonese, Captain Hough, from Liverpool 10th ult., arrived at this port last evening. She encountered strong gales and large quantities of ice. Our correspondent at Montevideo, writing on the 8th of January, states that the anniversary of the battle of New Orleans was celebrated there ina becoming manner. The entire fleet of American vessels lying in port were decorated with the national ensign and such other bunting as could be procured. At noon the ship Erie, of Bath, Captain Isaac Preble, fired @ salute of thirteen guns, which was politely answered by? the French Admiral, ‘who dipped his ensign and fired one gun by way of compliment. The United States Consul at Buenos Ayres— Mr. William Holley Hudson—has, by circular, in- formed the masters of all American vessels that in futmre no clearances will be granted until the master shall take and subscribe the oath of alle- giance. On refusal to do so, such captain will be instantly removed. The hoisting or displaying of the rebel flag on board any American vessel in port will be followed by the removal of the master aud the return of the vessel to the United States. We have our usual correspondence from Brazil, and files of the Jornal do Commercio, to the 24th of January last. The revenue of the country has been steadily on the increase throughout all the provinces of the empire. Thus far trade has not suffered much from the war in the United States, The export of coffee to America had been consid erably reduced. Flour has been imported in large quantities. The supplies of pitch pine, much wtwed in Brazil for building, have entirely fallen off, owing to the blockade of the Southern ports. For this reagom it is expegted that the Aral gargoce ax. NEW YORK HERALD, SUNDAY, MARCH 9, 1862. riving there will bring prices rarely equalled in that market. Very heavy rains had seriously im- peded the transportation of produce. Official re- turns show a decrease in exports to the United States during last year of 223,000 bags compared with 1860. The health of the empire was gene- rally good. An extract from aletter dated atthe city of Mexico on the 28th of January states that it has been arranged that the English and French, to the number of ten thousand men and ten batteries of rifled cannon, shall remain in the country, and that the Spanish forces shall leave. The two allied na- tions are to acknowledge the Mexican government, and loan it forty million dollars. They are also to control the custom houses, receiving two-thirds of the receipts, paying the remaining one-third to the Mexican government. They are to have the right of the Tehuantepec route. This treaty is te be in force five years, or until the Allies have received back their money. A petition has been drawn up for signatures in this city, to be presented to the Senate and House of Representatives, requesting those bodies to dispense with all further agitation of the slavery question, and expressing the opinion that a war for emancipation would be contrary to the interests of the American people. Counsel for James B. Taylor, indicted for an at- tempt to bribe Alderman Dayton, moved yester- day inthe General Seasions to quash the indict- ment. The points of the argument,will be found in another column. Judge McCunn took the pa- pera and reserved his decision. During Friday there was very good skating all day, and the sport was kept up by moonlight till alate hour. Yesterday skating was allowed, al- though the ice was somewhat soft, and it is to be feared that it will not be in a very brilliant condi- tion to-day. A walk, however, through the Park will doubtless be very pleasant, even if the wea- ther should be too warm to allow of skating. Thefotton market was again excited and active yos- terday. The sales embraced about 2,000 bales, closing on the basis of 27340. a 28c. for middling uplands. The Liverpool Brokers’ Circular of the 21st of February gives the steck of American ootton in that market at 177,990 bales, against 628,540 at the same time last year. Tho stock of India was 245,30, against 117,810 last year. Tho total stock of all kinds was 479,250 bales, against 791,240 at the samo period last year. There was nono reported at sea from America, against 387,000 last year, and 178 bales India, against 150,000 bales last year. The average weight of American bales is about 460 Ibs., and those of India about 300 Ibs. Flour was heavy, with a moderate demand, while prices, though easier for some grades, wore without quotable change for most descriptions. ‘The chief demand was from the home trade. Wheat was dull and sales were quite limited, while prices were irre- gular. Corn was lower, while Western mixed closed at 69c. 8 613¢¢., in store and delivered. Pork was heavy and rather lower, with sales of new moss at $14.$1412%, and new prime at $10 6254 a $10 75. Sugars were steady, with sales of about 700 bhas, Cuba at full prices. Coffee was quiet and sales limited. Freights werestoady and rates unchanged, while engagoments were moderate. The President's Policy and the Reorgani- zation of Negro Labor at the South. The proposition of the President, in his recent Message, is not, as the chief organ of abolition in this city pretends, in the nature of an alter- native to the Southern States. He does not say to them, “adopt my plan, and I will put anend to the war against you. Roject it, and you can- not have peace; for I will prosecute the war till you are compelled to agree to it, or till every slave is emancipated by the progress of hostili- ties.” This is the violent, outrageous interpre- tation which the Tribune puts upon the lan- guage of the Message, which is remarkably free from ambiguity—so clear, in fact, that “he who runs may read.” The President takes his etand upon the con- stitution. The Tridunerepresents him asa revo- lutionist, contemptating its subversion. The President unequivocally recognizes the sove- reignty of every Southern State over its own domestic institutions, slavery included, and he declares in the most emphatic manner that he has no intention whatever to meddle with their system of labor. His words are:—“Such a pro- position on the part of the general government sets up no claim of a right by federal authority to interfere with slavery within State limits, referring, as it does, the absolute control of the subject in each case to the State and its people immediately interested.” Mr. Lincoln then re- fers to the declaration in bis annual Message last December, in which he says “the Union must be preserved,” and adds that “a reac- knowledgment of the national authority would render the war unnecessary, and it would at once cease.” In other words, if the rebels lay down their arms and cease to resist, the war is at an end, the Union is preserved, and to the South its slave institution is saved. If, on the other hand, the South persevere in its resistance, then it must take the risk of its peculiar insti- tution being broken up—not by any uncon- stitutional acts of the President or of the Union generals, but by the natural pro- gress of the events of the war. How different is this from the fanatical senti- ments of the Tribune and the abolitionists? That journal has all along held that the rebel- lious States cannot be taken back into the Union till they are purged of slavery—that there can- not be any Union with slaveholders. Mr. Lin- coln says they will be taken back, with slavery, the moment they acknowledge the federal authority, and that it is to “preserve the Union” with the slaveholding States the war has been waged. Greeley says the object of the war and of Mr. Lincoln is to prevent re- union with the slaveholding States, and to estab- lish a new Union by revolution. Mr. Lincdin utterly repudiates this idea. But he makes a proposition for the consideration of the Southern States after peace is restored, in order to pre- vent the recurrence of war in the future; and he presses upon Congress the duty of taking the initiatory step, as ‘one of the most efficient means of self-preservation.” What does he ask Congress to do? Isit to compel any of the Southern States to accept the proposition of “gradual abolishment of slavery” on being “compensated for the inconveniences, public and private, produced by such change of sys- ‘tem?’ Notatall. On the contrary, he says, “It is proposed as a matter of perfectly free choice with them,” and he “hopes the proposition may be esteemed no offence.” Mr. Lincoln’s iden manifestly is that if Congress will adopt his views by acknowledging the sovereign right of each of the Southern States over slavery within its own limits, and at the same time, by establishing the principle of “pecuniary con- sideration” from the federal government to any State adopting gradual emancipation, the effect would be most beneficialin speedily restoring peace and the Union; for the Southern States, being thus assured of their rights by the fede- ral Congress for all time to come, would no longer have anything to fight for. The inten- tion of the President is conciliation, and not menace. On the other hand, he shows Congress that “the federal government would find its highest interest*in euch a measure.” In the first place, he says it would be likely to bring about en early peace; in the second, it would vieserve the Union from future disruption; and thirdly, in “a financial or pecuniary view, very soon the current expenditures of the war would purchase at a fair valuation all the slaves in any named State.” This eminently practical and constitutional statesmanship takes the wind out of the sails of the revolutionary abolition- ists, and deals a death blow to their visionary hopes, Dut there is an important question upon which Mr. Lincoln does not touch in his Mes- sage, but which is intimately and inseparably connected with the whole subject, and that is, what is to be done with the emancipated negroes? The President did not enter upon the discussion of this point, both because it would complicate the simple proposition in his Message, and because neither he nor Congress has any jurisdiction over the matter. Yet the Southern States, in considering the proposition of Me. Lin coln, must take into account all the conse. quences which would result from it to them- selves. The question, “what is to be done with the negro after his emancipation?” is, there- fore, an essential element in the Southern caleu- lation. That the negroshould be as free as white men, either at the North or at the South, is out of the question. The most that can be contem- plated for him is personal liberty, and not poli- tical. He cannot be allowed to vote,and he cannot be allowed to be idle. He will be free from a master, but not free from the restraint of law—not free to become a burthen anda nuisance to society. He must henceforth obey the State instead of a master. He will have the power of locomotion, to go where he thinks proper, and to hire his services to whom he pleases, and he cannot be separated from his family without bis own consent; but he must be compelled to work or suffor the penalties of vagrancy. It is clearly demonstrated by expe- rience that negroes will not work but under compulsion, and therefore it is absolutely neces- sary, under some form or other. It.has been suggested that the proper course to pursue with the emancipated negro is to colonize him. If the climate of the votton States were like that of the North, or even like that of Virginia, North Carolina, Ken- tucky, Missouri and Tennessee, colonization would be a good solution of the difficul- ty, provided it did not cost so much. But the climate of the cotton States does not suit the white laborer, and if the developement of the resources of those States depended on him they would remain undeveloped for cen- turies.” The negro is essentially necessary to the wealth and prosperity of the cotton States, and consequently to the interests of the whole Union, and to send him out of the country would not only be to restore him to idolatry and barbarism, but to throw away boundless riches without any compensation. Labor is the wealth of nations, and the black laboring population of the Gulf States could never be veplaved there. But if the President's proposition should be adopted negro slavery would be confined to those States, and under such limitations it could never interfere with the labor of the white man. On the contrary, it would aid the general progress of the nation. The border slave States, suited as they are to the labor of the white man, will undoubtedly soongr or later‘adopt the proposition of the President, and sell their negroes to the cotton States. But in those States the institution will long remain. because there it will be profitable alike to the black and white population, profitable to the rest of the Union, and profitable to the world atlarge. Mexico and Jamaica, situated in the same kind of climate, have been ruined by the abolition of negro slavery, while Cuba and Brazil, by retaining it, have prospered beyond any other communities in the New World, save the United States alone. Tux Prorosep Miurrary Cortivation oF Sovraern Corron Lanps.—Our abolition con- || temporary, the Zribune, announces that Sena- tor Wade is entitled to the credit of pressing toa passage, at the earliest practicable moment, Sen- ator Foster’s bill for the occupation and culti- vation of the cotton and other lands on the Southern coast which the rebellion has deeded to the United States. “Deeded to the United States.” How? Have the owners, who va- cated the sea islands around Port Royal on the approach of our victorious troops, been tried and convicted of treason? Or, granted that those absented South Carolina planters are all traitors, and that their plantations are thus forfeited temporarily to the government, and that the government, for the time being, has the right to cultivate those lands, as the owner thereof, the question recurs, will “the experi- ment pay, undor the existing condition of things? We think not.* The main object of the bill is professedly to give employment to several thousands of contraband negroes, left behind on those South Carolina and Georgia sea islands by their masters, or negroes who refused to fol- low their masters in their flight. Those negroes, with nothing to do, are a dead incumbrance upon the Treasury. This cultivation scheme, therefore, appears very plausible at first sight; but when we come to look into its comprehen- sive provisions for a board of overseers, con- tingent expenses, c., it appears to usa very nice little job for fleecing the Treasury, under the convenient pretences of economy and pbilan- thropy. In the next place, let it be understood throughout the South that “fhe rapacious Yan- kees have appropriated, and proceeded to culti- vate, the sea islands of Georgia and South Caro- lina, as their own property,” and the universal interpretation throughout the South will be that this is a Yankee war for the spoils and plunder ofa piratical invasion; and under this impres- sion the people of the South, with the advance of our armies, will be apt to invite our troops, as Toombs and Cobb have recommended, into a country wasted by fire, “into a desert more terrible than 8: * Such agricultural projects as this of this bill of Senator Foster constitute no part of Presi- dent Lincoln’s programme for the suppression of this rebellion, as we understand it. In enter- ing into any such projects the government will be trespassing upon forbidden ground, if we are prosecuting this war, not to destroy, but to re- store the rebellious South to the Union. We hope that this agricultural war bill of Senator Foster, which has passed the Senate by a vote of twenty-six to fourteen, will be killed off in the House, or that in the event of its passage there the President will give it the bowstring of a veto. Tue Taxation For THR War—Its Errecr 1s Enaranp—The effect of the high tariff which must be adopted, in consequence of the war, will be to give protection to native manufac- ures, and to exclude, in a large measure, Kn- Slish productions. An immense intpetus will be given to American manufactures, and they will flourigh under the new system. The result will be that the manufacturers of England will suffer severely, and in self-defence they wil! be compelled to emigrate here with their capital, their workshops and their workmen. This iv one of the many changes which will be wrought by the present war. The Tax Upon Newspapers. Our city contemporaries are very greatly exer- clsed about the taxes upon newspapers. When they cofhe to count up the amount of money they will be obliged to pay to support the go- vernment they feel decidedly like backing out and letting the government support itself. The blank pages of their ledgers and the bare bot- toms of their cash boxes admonish them that from nothing nothing can come, and that if they cannot pay their presont expenses they will hardly be able to pay the increased ex- penses which taxation brings with it. In fact, when journalists come to consider that every department of their business, every article they uso in the manufacture of a newspaper—their telegraphic news, their annual receipts from advertisements, and their annual income from every quarter—will be taxed, we donot wonder the: the war elephant seems to them very costly to keep, and that fighting looks like spending money foolishly. They have, at least, the satis- faction of knowing that they caused the war which is so expensive. Consequently the editors of several journals are going down to Washington to arrange the Tax bill to their own satisfaction. Brooks, of the Express, is already at the capital, button- holing members of the committee and getting treated by Congressmen generally. During his absence his paper has had to drop one or two of its nimety-nine editions, and duggers, stars, ashes, exclamation points and notes of interro- gation are sprinkled over its columns with perfoct recklessness, to make up for the lamen- table deficiency of news, and doubly aggravate the disgusted reader. The “Little Villain” of the Zimes intends to leave his lobby for a while and follow Brooks’ example at Washington, by spending as much time and as little money as possible to get himself excused from taxation. The Tribune has a strong force working hard for the same patriotic object, and poor Greeley is nearly crazy at their want of success. We won- der if it ever ocourred to these gentry that they might cut down their taxes, and save money much more easily, by coming home and so con- ducting their silly papers as to diminish the expenses of the war, by making it of shorter duration and more certain result? ‘The war must go on, and we must all help to pay for it. This pecuniary question is one there is a. aoaging or shirking. Rich and poor must pay, aud te is perfectly right they should do ay, If they gaunot pay the taxes, as their Dusinacs eianae aS present, then their business must be airarged so that they oan pay. There is no possibie help for it. Greeley and his ntitaxation friends might just as well attempt « catch the moon with a hook and line as to try to get their taxes reduced. On the contrary,now that the President has suggested an admirable mode of disposing of slavery in the border States, it is more than likely that the taxes upon newapapers may be doubled. We sincerely hope they may. The only way to touch these treasonable agi- tators and abolition fanatios is through their pookets, and we desire to have them touched deeply. But what are they to do, then? It is like getting blood out of a stone to get money from the impoverished Tribune, the poor, job- bing Times, or the World, which started upon nothing, and has held its own very well ever since. They must combine into one concern. Three zeros do not amount to very much; but they make a better show than a single zero at any rate. We think that by combination, pru- dence, economy and diminished expenditures this e pluribus unum paper might be made to pay. At least, like the triple alliance in Mexi- co, it might try. If it follows our advice we will insure its success, and we will advise it gratuitously. The wisdom acquired by our long and successful experience in jour- nalism is at the service of our poor contempora- ries, and we will deal it out to them in such morsels as we think they can remember and digest. Our first bit of advice, then, is—Com- bine! But as for reducing the tax upon newspapers, that is not to be thought of. The Express re- ceives about twenty thousand dollars a year from the public treasury, and ought to be both able and willing to pay halfofit back again. The Tritnne, Times and World have done too much to cause the war to reasonably ask to be excused from paying its expenses. Besides, if one class of papers is exempted, or if évening papers are taxed lightly, or if any one paper is favored, then away goes the great principle of taxation—im- partiality—and we might as well have no taxes at all, so endless will be the disputes and liti- gation involved. A good heavy tax will weed out a great many silly, trashy papers, which now subsist by black mailing or prurient medi- cal advertisements, and break up bogus papers devised by City Hall politicians and municipal legislators to draw money for Corporation ad- vertising; and thus both the government and city treasuries and the morals of the people will be greatly benefited. Therefore our motto is—Tax and spare not. A Littix More Fase Propuzcy—In one of his recent letters to the London Times the hero of Bull run again makes himself superbly ri- diculous by another string of false prophecies and erroneous assertions. Speaking of the Burnside expedition, he tells the British public that it is already a failure, and that the arm is paralyzed before it can strike a blow. He further states that the President precipitated its departure, and that General Burnside has no staff officer able to assist him. He displays his malice by throwing all the ridicule be can upon the disasters which the expedition suffered in the storm, and distorts facts without scruple. Those who know of the successes of the expo- dition to which the LL.D. refers can appreciate the folly of his writing any more prophecies on American affairs. He ought to subside immo- iately, in order to avoid the ignominious ond which will otherwise overtake him. Reomentat Inscrirtioxs—We are glad to perceive that an order has been issued by the War Department directing that the names of the actions in which any regiment may have taken part be inscribed on the regimenta} ban- nors. This is in accordance with Enropean custom, and, by serving to commemorate our hard fought victories, it will stimulate the | pride’ of the army, and when the war is over the flags decorated with such names as Booneville, Mill Springs, Fort Donelson, Fort Henry, Port Royal, and many others, will remind the veterans of the present war of the glorious triumphs of the Union arms, and become interesting souvenirs of the people, as well as of our brave defenders. As they flaunt in the sunlight on some peaceful Fourth of July a generation hence, they will be greeted with the cheers,of the loyal masses lining the wayside, and inspire many a recollection of the great events of this great war for the main- tenance of our national integrity. Nows from Fortress Monroe. Fortress Moyrox, March 7, 1862. ‘Tho steamtugs Atlantic and Pendulum, from Philadel- phia, came into the Roads this morning, ‘The Pendulum sank whilst passing the lightship. AM bands wore saved. ‘The Suwanee, which sailed for Hatteras, with stores,om Thursday, returned on account of bad weather. She is to sail again to-night. ‘The wind is changing to the northwest. The, Army. GENERAL THOMAS A. DAVIES, who has just been made, by the Presidcnt and Senate, @ Brigadier General, is ® uative of St. Lawrence county, in this State. Hoe entered the Military Academy at West Point in 1825, and graduated with honor im 1829. He was attachod to the regiment thea commanded by Colonel Zachary Taylor, afterwards our President. I¢ was then stationed at Prairie du Chien, in Inois, where Lieut. Davios immediately repaired, and he remained there with Gen, Taylor two years. He enjoyod ine high degree the confidence of that distinguished officer, and it was a favorite remark of his that if he wanted ‘anything promptly done and well done he called on Lieut. Davies to do &. In 1831 Lieut. Davies was ordered back to West Point, to assume there an important military command. In 1832 he resigned from the army and ea- gaged in commercial business, in this city, as a cierk in the house of Goodhue &Co. Mr. Davies continued in the active discharge of mercantile affairs for about thirteen years, when he retired from business, and bas since continued a resident of this city in private life. Although a firm and consistent democrat, and warmly attached to the principles and policy of that party, as was his father, Judge Davies, of St. Lawrence county, and ever yielding an earnest support to its candidates, yet on the publication of tho first message of Jefferson Davis to his rebol Congress, at Montgomery, Mr. Davies avowed his determination to stand by the Union, and act only with those who would rally to its defence. Whea the attack was made on our flag at Fort Sumter, he, im common with our whole population, rallied to vindicate its honor, to avenge the insult offered to it,and to sustain the government, the constitution and the Union. He im- mediately tendered his services to the Commander-in- Chief, and soon after was elected and appointed Colonel of the Sixteenth regiment New York Volunteers. This regi- ment was mainly composed of sons of St. Lawrence, friends of Colonel Davies, or song of his friends. He joined the regiment at Albany on the Ist of May, and brought it up to s splendid state of discipline, when he loft there with i¢ for the Potomac, about the close of June last. On th® 1st of July he was placed in command of a brigade, consisting of the Sixteenth, Eighteenth, Thirty-firat and Thirty-second regiments New York Volunteers. This bri- gade he commanded till after the battle of Bull run, when some of the regiments were changed, and he continued am Acting Brigadier General until about the 1st of October last. General Davies’ brigade composed the left wing of our army on its march to and at the battle of Bull run. He commanded that wing of our army at that battle, and after the defeat of our forces on the right wing, on that ever memorable day, the enemy, as is well knowns, fiercely attacked our left wing, but were gal- lantly repulsed by the command of Goneral Davies, aided by Hunt’s and Green’s batteries. General Davies brought off his brigade from the field of battle in order to Centreville, where, on General McDow- ell’s arrival, and on his passing through to Washington, General Davies was placed by him in command of the army, and under his eye and command it was brought in safety to Alexandria. General McDowell, in his efficial report of the battle, says:—‘‘Colonel Davies, in the seve- ral placcs his duty calied him, did moss effective service, and behaved in the most gallant manner.”” General Davies has now boen promoted by the Presi- dent and Sonate for gallant conduct at that battle, the first officer in command there upon whom such an honog has been conferred. The Funeral of Gen. Lander at Salem. Boston, March 8, 1863. ‘The funeral of Gen. Lander at Salem, this afternoon, was an imposing and solemn event. The body was es- corted by a procession consisting of the four loeal mili- tary companies of Salem, the Boston Divisionary corps of Cadets, a detachment of the Andrew Sbarpshooters, who accompanied the remains home; Gov. Andrew and staff, the municipal authorities of Salem, the Fire Department, officers of the army and navy, Judges of the Court and citizens generally. The church was appropriately dressed in mourning. Rey. Dr. Briggs oMeiated. The coffln bore the following inscription:— FRED. W. LANDER, Brigadier Goneral, Disp Marcu 2, 1802, At Camp Chaso, Virginia, ‘Aged 39 years. «“Bravost of the brave.” snocoreecnececee senor eneeenne ‘At the close of the services in the church the procss- Broad street burial ground, posited and three volleys fired over the grave. CeLzpRatior OF St. Patrick's Day.—The delogates from the various Irish societios, held a mecting on Friday to perfect the arrangements of St. Patrick’s Day. Mr. J. Sandford presi ‘The following gentlomen were ap- pointed a committee to proceed to Washington, to meet ‘Colonel Corcoran:—Hon. Michael Connolly, E. L. Carey, T. Ryan, P. McArdle and P. Harrington, On motion, the Chairmain of the Convention was added to the above Committes. Tho delegations thon drew for the positions in the line of their respective societies, with the follow- ing result:— . Meagher Club. . Hibernians of New York. 8—Longshoremen’s Benevolent Societys 4—United Sona of Erin. 5—St. James’ R. O. T. B, Society. 6—Father Mathow T. A. B. Society, 1—Hibernian Benevolent Society. A committee, consisting of I Michael Connotty, Mz. R. Wilson, of the Father Mathew T. A. B. Socicty of New York, and the Grand Mari inted to wait on his Honor the Mayor, the Common Council and the Police Commissioners, in ordor to complote the ne- cesgary arrangements for the procession and reviow om the 17th of March. Tho Gonvention then proceeded to an election for Grand Marshal, E. L. Carey and T. Ford being the prin- cipal candidates. Mr. Carey was elocted, and in the namo of the Father Mathew Total Abstinence Society thanked the Convention for the honor conferred upom him. The following persons were elected as Aids:— Messrs. James White, Daniei Grinman, P. Halpin, T. Mo- nahan and J. McClosky. Rescue of the Crow of the Schooner Idalia. Bosto, March 8, 1862. The gunboat Dacotah brought in to-day the crew of the schooner Idalia, from Philadelphia for Halifax. The Idalia was abandoned at soa on the 4th instant in latitude 40, longitndi Personal Intelligence. General Scott js still stopp at tho Clarendon Hotel. He is the enjoyment of excellent health, takes ear- ringe oxercise every day, and invariably dines at the table d? hote. Hon. A. P. Grant, of Oswego; Col. P, R, Gorge and W: ©. Murdock, of Boston i. W, ors, of Ww. B Fletcher, of Rhode Island, and W. hamton, are atopping at the St. Nicholas Hotel. iS Anthony [rollope, of England; EB. Twoedy, of rt, RT C. Gramor, of Waterford, and Mca. Cook, of klyn, aro stopping at the Clarendon Hotel. injor Ladd, of the United of Poughkeepsie; G. T. of San Francisep; James 5 i; y, of Atban ; ¥. a) tick. nor, of Boston, and J. Lockwood and wife, are stopping at the Fifth Avenue Hotol. Hon. M. 9. Wilkinson, of Syracuse; Professor Baird ana ‘asbington; F. B, Dole, of Maine, Rdward Titd- ‘W. Ledyard, of Cagenovia; John ;B. Spring, of Eagleswood, N. J. id, and J. W. Woods arid wife, ot iho Brevoort House. 8. Bowles "it Boston, aro stopping 1 Ward, of the Untted States Army; P. 0. Cal- poner Bridgeport; Mrs. Brown, of Spriv ghlold, Mass. ; 8s, Lambert, of Peckekill; P. Maddan, of Chiba, and Jag, F. Penderghast, of New York, aro stoppiy.g at the Kvorott jouse. i Levi Ives, of New Haven; . B. 17 grave and Samuel M. Raisbock, of New York; W. 1. To) oiian aud wife, of Massachusetts; G. B. Taylor, of Hud son; 0, H. Lewis, of Baltimore, and A. KE. 8. Kelding ao’ wire, of Philadeiphia, are stopping at the Lafarge louse, Arrivals and ‘pepartares pera 4, Laverroor—Stenmehip fr Wallace, B Mar. r i wife and child, yost h 5 Ld CAE Feed Poath. Od 0\ther swith othe: